Elves [noun]

The Elves Chorus is intended for boys voices in unison, with accompaniment for mixed chorus and orchestra.

All around him, wherever the moon shone through the trees, he saw numbers of elegant little elves at play.

The thorn bush was sacred to the Elves for reasons which will be discussed in a subsequent chapter.

Shakespeare refers to elves as ouphes, which is the same word as oaf and was formerly spelt aulf.

In the North of England the elves seem to have been known as hags, for fairy rings are there known as hag tracks.

They never saw the dances of the elves, never heard the delicate harmony of their roundelays.

Fairies and elves, and other half-human demons, are sometimes regarded as degenerate gods.

Some of the supernatural beings resemble our elves and fairies and the Indian Rakshasas.

But, returning to western traditions, there is a way of counteracting the elves' transforming magic.

Wiser, though still doomed to failure, were those Irish elves who lifted up a window and handed the infant out.